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… almost like the Earth itself – the green ice covered rocks, the slicing feeling, the compressive feeling of the glaciers. The whole time I was watching I kept thinking that you were a master of the north, the arctic landscape – the red flowers in the dusky light, the deep blue light, the tall trees with running mists, and Jane looking… The ice, the water, the moss, the golden light. A visual symphony… – Hollis MeltonRead More »
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In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver’s wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.Read More »
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“An attempt to conjure pictorially, from the mind, an image that isn’t referential: I’d like to give something back, not a picture of a flower, but some flower that couldn’t exist except on film.”Read More »
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A private detective (Fairport Convention musician Dave Swarbrick) investigates the case of a young woman held captive by her drug-addict mother. This is just one of many witty, imaginative reframings of the Brothers Grimm fairytale in this beguiling feminist film. The wildly diverse episodes show how the story’s characterisation and political morality pervade graphics, adverts, films and TV. This rarely-seen film is unavailable on DVD.Read More »
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This experimental animation from the Amber Film Collective stands apart from the documentaries and social realist films, mostly concerned with life and work in the North East, that would become the collective’s usual stock in trade. It was the third release to appear under the Amber banner, and the second of only two animations (the other being 1969’s A Film).Read More »
Teenagers Lasse and Geir are arrested after making trouble on a night bus into town. After a night in the slammer they go home to Geir’s alcoholic mother and to Lasse’s father, which is terrorizing the entire family.Read More »
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All those who, like me, see auction rooms as places charged with poetry and mystery […] cannot fail to be deeply moved by Jamais plus toujours. Not only because of the melancholy charm and subtle refinement of this visual poem, but because this happens to be a poem dedicated to the object, and it is high time that we considered the place of the object in our civilisation. – Claude Lévi-StraussRead More »
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Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect him. So he becomes a consultant to another gang who are about to be clobbered by a much larger gang moving in from out of town. Aiba proves a crafty tactician, and does very well at playing gangs off against each other in order to save the smaller gang. His advice is not always taken by those he tries to help, but he is generally proved right.Read More »
Documentary in two parts that blends dramatized reconstructions, personal reminisces and newsreel footage to tell the story of the flight of German refugees through occupied France to Marseille in 1940.
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Anna Segher’s novel Transit (1944) is the leitmotif of this film essay on German exiles in France and their escape to the South after Hitler marched into Paris. But Fluchtweg nach Marseille is neither adaptation nor documentary: actors recite and react to passages from the novel. Eyewitnesses speak. Documents from the Nazi era are contrasted with images of places and landscapes in which the settings of persecution and escape come back to haunt both the filmmakers and us. This is a search for evidence that interweaves facts, personal recollections, and both literary and visual reflections.
-Anke HahnRead More »